Child emoji 🧒
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9D2
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧒 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🧒 are bright-eyed, grandchild, kid, young, younger. They show what people use it for.
Search for bright-eyed or grandchild on your emoji keyboard and 🧒 is among the results.
You will find 🧒 among the people (28 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 👦 👧 🧑 👱.
Besides the default yellow, 🧒 has 5 skin tones, from 🧒🏻 light to 🧒🏿 dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🧒 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 5.0 brought 🧒 in 2017. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🧒
Search for child in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧒.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type child.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type child in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type child.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🧒 is one code point (U+1F9D2), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9D2 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧒 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧒 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D2"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D2} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%92 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 92 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧒 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the child emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧒 "child" and links it with bright-eyed, grandchild, kid, young. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people subgroup of people & body.
When was the child emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧒?
Yes. 🧒 has these skin tones: 🧒🏻 🧒🏼 🧒🏽 🧒🏾 🧒🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.